Camp near [Noonday?] Creek Ga
 		           June 26th 1864
Dear Lucy
		after so long
time I will write you a few
lines I have had no chance
for writing lately last night
the mail come in fetched me
two letters one from you &
one from Helen your was maild
the 15th & I was glad to get it
it is the ninth letter I have
received from you since I left
home & this is the seventh I
have writen we had a fight


had a fight     fight
on the 20th we ^ have had a ^ good
many since we started out on
this campaign but this was a
little the toughefst time yet
our regiment was orderd to charge
what was supposed to be one regi-
-ment of cavalry but thare proved 
to be a half a dozzen regiments
they halted us rather. short I
cant tell you all the paticulars
of the fight for I have no time
they charged us first withe revolver
comeing down out of the woods
in solid column we sent them
flying with our spencers but
not without loss for they killed
six horses out of 20 killed two
of our men & wounded two the
first fire from our company they
then chargad with saber. four or
five of them only [come?] through
our line and they ware cut
down in less than no time

Asa. W. Mosher one of the Boys that
was killed he lived in Augusta
he was a good soldier we had
no braver the other Boy that was
killed lived in Detroit his name
was Smidt I was standing close
to him when he fell the ball
passed through his head & he
never knew what hurt him
Frank was slightly wounded & a
recruit severly wounded through
the right lung this was all the
loss from our company the whole
loss of the regiment was 41
			       prisoners
10 killed 23 wounded & 8 wounded
this out of less than 2100 two
hundred engaged. we lost over
forty horses after fighting an hour
& over we ware compeld to fall
back fetching of only a part of
our killed and wounded we
went out the next morning
and got the [reast?]. for the Rebs..

left the field about as low
as we did it was the hottest
fire I have ever been in some
of the time we war withing
thirty feet of each other if
they [begin?] get me in many more
such places you will want
to look for some other corespondent
you might do well to look out
for another for all I tell you they
shoot close thare is continual
fighting along our line we
are within 2 mile of Marietti
let Brooks know who of our company
are killed & wounded tell him
his friend Trip was wounded
in the knee
the weath is very warm the mail
is closing and I have no more
time to write
		Othniel
we are orderd to be ready to move
out at 12 oclock
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